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Word: lancers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...career, amassed more than 350 screen credits. He directed a quickie for a comic who called himself Charles Chaplin and who went to Mexico when he was sued by Charlie Chaplin. He wrote a seven-reel drama for Anna Held. He wrote scripts for Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The Plainsman, Souls at Sea, 52nd Street. Last June he went to St. Vincent's Hospital for a kidney operation, began dictating the screenplay of Three Girls and a Gob soon after he came out of the anesthesia. Three weeks ago, with the script finished, the kidney trouble returned, forced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gag Man | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

EUROPEAN JUNGLE - Francis Yeats-Brown-Macrae Smith ($3). England's yogi-man (Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Yogi Explained} submits a hot-eyed appraisal of pre-war Europe. Yeats-Brown's arch-enemies are Communism, Atheism, Internationalism, Pacifism. Hitler, "a great man, whatever his failings . . . great in spirit," is favorably compared with Gandhi, T. E. Lawrence. France is "one of the most enjuivé [Jewridden] countries in Europe . . . nothing but a dictatorship can save [the French]." Readers who must grant the author the courage of his two-thirds fascist convictions, supported by no little factual solidity, will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: History & Argument | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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